إذا أشهدت أنك في شهود

خليّ عن مقاومة الشهيدِ

If you bear witness that you are in the witnessing,

Cease resisting the martyr.

وإنك ناظر فيه إليه

به من كونِه ربَّ العبيدِ

And you are looking to him, to Him

Through his being the Lord of servants.

وإنك مبتغٍ طلباً مَزيداً

فقد شُرعَ السؤالُ من المزيد

And you are seeking more increase,

So asking for more has been legislated.

رأيتُ العينَ ليس لها نظيرٌ

يقاوم من مُرادٍ أو مُريد

I saw the eye that has no peer

Resisting the purposeful or the follower.

إذا ما الحق جلاه إلينا

تعيَّنَ في السيادةِ والمسُودِ

When the Truth manifests itself to us,

It is specified in mastery and prostration.

فما في الكونِ من يدري كلامي

سوى مَنْ عينه حبلُ الوريد

So none in the universe knows my words

Except the one whose vein is the lifetime.

فيظهرُني فأظهره فيخفى

فأخفيه بآدابِ السجودِ

So he manifests me and I manifest him and he hides

And I hide him in the manners of prostration.

سجدتُ له سجودَ هوى بحقٍّ

فأكرم بالسلامِ وبالشهود

I prostrated to Him in prostration of passion in truth,

So He honored with peace and witnessing.

رفعتُ به فلم أر غير ذاتي

تصرف في القيام وفي القعود

I was raised through Him yet I did not see other than my essence

Acting in standing and sitting.

ليشهد في جميع الأمر منه

وفيه فينطفي غيظاً حسودي

That He may witness in all matters from Him

And in Him, so my jealous rage is extinguished.